What makes Americans...American?

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>>74584202
weight

they're usually childish and selfish

Optimistic to a point where it's foolish.

>>74584202
>they're different from Euros
It means nothing. Euros are different from each other too. Us French are more different with Eastern Euros than North Americans. Canadians are even cousins, so we have much more ties with them than Euros, except Belgians and Swiss..

>>74584202
We're hard to pin down because we're so heavy AJAJAJAJAJA you're out of your weight class mate.

>be American
>attend weight class at Walmart University
>refuse polio vaccine because it causes autism
>get shot by other students in self defense

Dog bless :-DDDDD

>>74584202
euros are full of themselves and gay as fuck.
scandinavians and americans are humble and good hearted.

All westerners are the same desu

brown or black skin

violent and racist

>>74584202
It would take hours to detail the exact nuanced cultural differences between the US and Europe, especially since we are so different due to over 400 years of divergence from Britain, more similar to Australia and Canada than anybody else, and probably nobody on here would actually be able to give a serious and correct answer.

So basically we are fatter and dumber dur-ha-hah

>>74584202
No foreskin

>>74584731
*shoots you for sharting in my direction and thus violating the NAP*

Europeans are city dwellers, americans are rural folk.

They love freedom and would sacrifice everything they have for it.
But freedom comes at the price of freedom, because freedom ain't free.

>>74584985
Also our cities have terrible public transit infrastructure

>>74584367
Edgy comment

>>74584202
According to Frederick Jackson Turner, it's because of our massive frontier. The theory is like 120 years old but I still think it makes sense.

>>74584538
>scandinavians
>humble

These two words don't belong together.

>>74584763
>STILL being a subhuman who's not ashamed of their body
Canada: Abhorrent!

>>74584878
>your bullet embeds itself in my soft-Kevlar vest I was wearing underneath my clothing
>draw cc and shoot you dead
Step it up senpai.
>>74584202
On a serious note, it's a bit difficult. Like it or not we're the result of an absolute assload of different people setting up here and bringing their own shit with them. Hence you get a rather interesting hodgepodge of a dominant culture, with different regional cultures that vary widely depending on geography.

>>74584731
>It would take hours to detail the exact nuanced cultural differences between the US and Europe

American culture is more loud-and-in-your-face than Europe. It likes big things and macho displays of aggression.

American culture is more idealistic than European culture which has a higher degree of fatalism in it.

We don't play the same sports as Europeans

Europeans are more accepting of nudity than Americans because of classical Greco-Roman artistic ideals

Christianity in the US is based around evangelism and not so much the apostolic Christianity of Europe.

Americans value personal liberty uber alles, Europeans are willing to sacrifice some freedoms for social stability and ordnung.

>>74589405
That's a good list. Your spacing sucks tho

>>74589405
Americans tend to value practical subjects over artistic ones

Americans are by and large very open and accepting, there's nobody we really hate, while Europeans want to genocide each other over wars that happened hundreds of years ago (especially in Eastern Europe).

>>74589405
>Europeans are more accepting of nudity than Americans because of classical Greco-Roman artistic ideals
And to an extent because European culture especially Scandinavia is more collectivist than our culture. In Finland, it is not a shame to naked because the whole nation is your family, while your neighbor could be a complete stranger here.

European culture is also based in a lot of ancient traditions that sometimes predate recorded history. Cultural preservation is a big thing there, and France especially is known for their bizarre and arcane regulations on everything, especially food production.

>>74584202
Why do you talk like vsauce?

>>74589946
michael from vsauce is a faggot

the vsauce3 guy is the least annoying one of the bunch

>>74589405
>American culture is more idealistic than European culture which has a higher degree of fatalism in it.

Edgar Allen Poe was huge in Europe, particularly France, but too dark for American tastes, especially in the 19th century.

>>74589902
When you've got the best food in the world, it should be protected and regulated so that people continue to make it correctly.

>>74590066
>When you've got the best food in the world
I found a book somewhere of traditional French recipes and it was all weird/gross stuff like sheep brains and moldy cheeses.

>>74584202
while they are treated as the dumbest country, the most violent, etc they are actually tolerant to ghetto savage shit like hiphop, anime, japanese games etc and before anyone else is in the west, they always are. maybe its because they are racially diverse but sitll they get into it the fastest in the west. besides, the language. english has dominates the world, and it gives them a huge advantage.

>>74590066
Have you never heard of freedom you goddamn commie

>>74589720
>And to an extent because European culture especially Scandinavia is more collectivist than our culture. In Finland, it is not a shame to naked because the whole nation is your family, while your neighbor could be a complete stranger here.
but Europeans, namely northern Europeans, can be assburgers as fuck while Southern Hospitality here demands that you be friendly with total strangers.

England seemed downright strange to me as a Texan.

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>>74584202
Our freedoms. A lot of Europeans don't like it. See >>74590066

>>74590025
What makes Americans.....American?
> o.O

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>>74590331
Dammit I read it in his faggot voice

>tfw saw the episode of JRE with him in it and he was awkward af and often struggled to find something to say

He's just like me I suppose.

>>74584202
They don't give a fuck about anything unless it directly affects them

>>74590153
>Brain and other kind of offal.
>Weird.
Wut, you have probably eated lots of them without knowing, if frankfurts and chicken nuggets for example (and in that way is fucking bad for you). Also it's called fermented, the moldy thing. Salami has it for example, cheese (true cheese) is fermented too,roquefort (proably the cheese you mean) it fermented in caves than had an specific mold than gives its propieties, coffe or chocolate beans tend to be fermented too for flavour and getting all the good stuff.

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>>74590479
>implying

sjws and cultural appropriation are the worst thing america could ever bring into the rest of the world. i understand id politics matters in burger land for some reason but it has nothing to do with other countries or any liberal value.

>>74584202
Certainly size.

Euros live in tiny homes, in tiny towns, and drive tiny cars. You have small mindsets and bland personalities as a result. You take comfort in fitting in, not standing out from the crowd.

Everything about us is just...bigger.

Illustration: Imagine a pit bull on meth, standing next to a Rembrandt.

>>74584202
No such thing >>>/x/

Old reason: Americans hold enlightenment and calvinist ideas more than euros
New reason: Americans have up their culture for money and brown people

Europeans are all about the we while americans are me me me

I think that's the biggest difference

>>74590479
Hmm yes we don't care about other people.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-new-zealand-and-canada-top-list-of-world-s-most-generous-nations-a6849221.html

>It may come as a surprise to some American readers to learn that, in the eyes of many Continental European commentators, they and the British and the Australians and others form part of a continuous “Anglo-Saxon” civilization, whose chief characteristic is a commitment to free markets. American friends, in my experience, often bracket the United Kingdom with the rest of Europe, and emphasize the exceptionalism of their own story. Yet, as we shall see, very few foreigners think of them that way. Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited the United States in the early 1830s, is often quoted as a witness to that country’s uniqueness. Quoted, but evidently not widely read since, on the very first page of Democracy in America, he anticipates one of that book’s main themes, namely the idea that English-speakers carried a unique political culture with them to the New World and developed it there in ways far removed from what happened in French and Spanish America. “The American,” he wrote, “is the Englishman left to himself.”

Source: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Anglosphere-miracle-7709

>>74584202
They're number 1 in thinking they're number 1. And I find that admirable.

Euros live in the past.

Americans create the future.

>>74584202
Americans
>Optimist hurrr durr American Dream. I may be poor now or have no health care, but I will try harder to make sure I have stuff I don't.
>Not settling for less. We want more more more and more.
>Our cities suck architecture and transportation wise.
>Overly nice and loud we can come off strong and a bit annoying.
>Dangerous pop culture that has degraded our society.
>Our Anglo roots keep us stable in terms of government and rights.
>Unique from State to State.
>Our country will fade like the greatest empires before it.
>Proud about being #1 and scared to lose the position.
>We are more self centered it explains our governments and corporations.
Europeans
>Tons of culture because of this they believe they are above everyone.
>A bit reserved and can come off as rude sometimes. Depends on area however.
>Willing to sacrifice populism for security and a working government.
>Old don't have babies and deep down absolutely hate brown people. Applies to white americans too.
>Admire and hate America from a far.
>America is quite young compared to Europe age gap.

>>74597062
Protip: Americans inherited WE WUZ due to european pride of nationalism. I've seen threads where Northern Germanics call Southern Euros shit skins. It seems to be banter, Americans act the same or used to before the brown hordes.

Tiers of heritage superiority
1. Anglo-American(excluding irish)
2. Germanic(includes Germany and Sweden etc..)-American
3. Slav/Eastern European-American
4. Southern European- Americans (Portuguese, Italian, Spaniards, Greeks, and some Balkans)
5. East Asians
6. South East Asians and Indians
7. Middle-Eastern Christians
8. Latinos/Castizos

9. Latinos/Mestizos/Amerindians hated at the moment
9. (Tied) Black people have always had their share of hate. Improving doing their own thing.
10. Muslims/Arabs/Pakistanis Americans don't like these people that much.

>>74597130
>thinks slavs are better than anything beside ebola
that's where you are wrong kiddo

>>74597434
Well numbers 1-4 ended up mixing and creating the average white american so in the end it didn't even matter.

>>74597434
Better than Italians anyway

>>74584367
Our optimism got us too the moon.

>>74597510
your deduction skills are quite poor if that's what you understood
i dont care about pakistanis comments anyway

>>74597544
No that was the Soviet rivalry

>>74597544
You mean MY optimism. You didn't do a damn thing.

I wouldn't know exactly but the ones I've met on my travels were usually way too forward to someone they've just met in a bar and wanted a chilled out chat.

Also after they've had a few drinks literally every topic of discussion seemed to turn into a cock measuring contest where they steered the convo onto how great America was at whatever we were talking about. This happened constantly.

>>74597622
did you tell them? what was their reply?

the few I've met in real life were loud as fuck, on 4chan, they're completely retarded in addition

>>74589405
Why were you slipping into German at the end?
Du sprichst Deutsch?

>>74584202
Rugged individualism.

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I've met my fair share of them, and overall, they seem like a bunch of good guys, real good guys.

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>>74584202
As an american, the only thing i can mention is fat asses. Oh and firearms

>>74584202
Everyone's different. There aren't 350 million people living south of the 49th that all live the stereotype of the American dream.

That said, that stereotype is generally heavily business oriented (whether it be commerce, industry or agriculture), middle class/never quite enough to be content, and neutral-to-friendly-enough in an oddly straightforward, slightly thoughtless way that can come off as rude depending on context.

It's a massive country though - lots of dialectual and cultural differences.

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>>74599395
These are the same dumbasses that wonder why others hate them

>>74597062
>le Europe is like a single country meme

>>74599460
I think he is making fun of that post

>>74599591
it's hard to tell through text alone

>>74599587
Delete this now

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>>74599395

>>74599664
Read the screencap. It's clear that he is making fun of it.

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>muh national chains.

>>74599664
>it's hard to tell through text alone
Another thing that makes muricans murican:
Can't read sarcasm

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Americans don't even think of you.

>>74599134
Nah dude. You're wrong about mass immigration from Europe changing our basic principles inherited from the Anglo colonists. Sorry.

>>74600098
Ootko kännissä?

>>74600186
Kello on 5 aamulla arkipäivänä. Tietenkin?

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Psst! you can be mediocre and still live in one of this (as long is not in New York or Los Angeles). Don't tell other Americans I said it. We are kind of full right now.

>>74600243
Kaljat loppuu. On juotava muutama ihan vitun nopeasti itellä. MItä mies, mitä pelaat?

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Who plays american music at their parties?

We know

>>74600306

Everyone already knows that, Juan.

Real Americans Look to the future while the rest look to the past.

>>74600210

You mean those groups that died out or are laughed at

>>74597490

More like 1 and 2

>>74600847

Right the ones everyone laughs at and is disgusted by

>>74590266
> after the gunfire they started singing
Fuck I remember that lmao.
>be muslim
>get shot
>amerifats chant usa usa usa at your corpse
The best part is how few Americans it triggered. Pretty much everyone understood that attacking muh freeze peach in Texas was just an elaborate suicide routine. I was proud to see my country live up to its ideals that day.

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The USA is the worst country on the face of the planet. I literally cry myself to sleep sometimes thinking about how I am stuck in this shithole and can't live somewhere more developed and accepting like Europe or Syria. AmeriKKKa is chock full of racists and right wingers, and it saddens me that people from other countries buy into the whole "America is great" meme and try to immigrate here. If I were a foreigner, especially one of color and who considers themselves left wing, I would stay very far away from the USA. I, as a proud Democrat voter, would even urge my fellow Democrats to leave the US for better, more accepting places like France, Germany, Somalia, Denmark, or Canada.

>>74584367
There's good reasons for that.

List of bad things that have happened recently enough that your average American remembers/cares about it:
9/11